A new minute ectosymbiotic harpacticoid copepod living on the sea cucumber Eupentacta fraudatrix in the East/Japan Sea
- Title
- A new minute ectosymbiotic harpacticoid copepod living on the sea cucumber Eupentacta fraudatrix in the East/Japan Sea
- Author
- 이원철
- Keywords
- Copepoda; Laophontidae; Eupentacta fraudatrix; Ectosymbiosis; New genus; 18S rDNA
- Issue Date
- 2018-06
- Publisher
- PEERJ INC
- Citation
- PEERJ, v. 6, Article no. e4979
- Abstract
- The ectosymbiotic copepods, Vo s toklaophonte eupenta gen. & sp. nov. associated with the sea cucumber Eupentacta fraudatrix, was found in the subtidal zone of Peter the Great Bay, East/Japan Sea. The new genus, Vostoklaophonte, is similar to Microchelonia in the flattened body form, reduced mandible, maxillule and maxilla, but with well-developed prehensile maxilliped, and in the reduced segmentation and setation of legs 1-5. Most appendages of the new genus are more primitive than those of Microchelonia. The inclusion of the symbiotic genera Microchelonia and Vostoklaophonte gen. nov. in Laophontidae, as well as their close phylogenetic relationships, are supported by morphological observations and molecular data. This is the third record of laophontid harpacticoid copepods living in symbiosis with sea cucumbers recorded from the Korean and Californian coasts.
- URI
- https://peerj.com/articles/4979/https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/119041
- ISSN
- 2167-8359
- DOI
- 10.7717/peerj.4979
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- COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCES[S](자연과학대학) > LIFE SCIENCE(생명과학과) > Articles
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